Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Readers' Choice Award
THE 2023 TOP 20 FINALISTS
Kris Calvin / Under a Broken Sky
Hope Clark / Badge of Edisto
Tracey Devlyn / Flash Point
Kathleen Donnelly / Chasing Justice
Darlene Dziomba / Clues from the Canines
Lori Duffy Foster / Never Broken
Lori Duffy Foster / Never Let Go
Leigh M. Hall / Within These Walls
James L'Etoile / Dead Drop
Richard Meredith / Maskirovka—The Russian Science of Deception
Kiersten Modglin / The Dinner Guests
Kiersten Modglin / A Quiet Retreat
Kelly Oliver / Chaos at Carnegie Hall
Saralyn Richard / Bad Blood Sisters
Saralyn Richard / Crystal Blue Murder
Jeneva Rose / One of Us is Dead
Jeff Shaw / Lieutenant Trufant
Ruth Ware / The It Girl
C.B. Wilson / Doodled to Death
Lois Winston / Guilty as Framed
Winner will be announced at the 2023 Killer Nashville Awards Dinner on August 19, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee
THE 2023 NOMINEES
Traci Abramson / The Danger with Diamonds
Traci Abramson / Not Dead Yet
Victor Acquista / Revelation
A. M. Adair / Shadow War
Aamina Ahmad / The Return of Faraz Ali
Lawrence Allan / Big F@!king Deal
Joy Allyson / Whiskey Love
Carmen Amato / Murder at the Galliano Club
Terry Ambrose / Lies, Spies, and the Baker's Surprise
Dave Ames / Trout Town
Yasmin Angoe / They Come At Knight
Lis Angus / Not Your Child
Daco Auffenorde / The Forgotten Girl
Alexandria Ausman / Delusion of the Collar and the Key
Kathleen Bailey / Silence Says the Most
Brian Baker / The Ambassador
Robin Barefield / Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier
Terry Barnett / Foregone Revenge
Barbara Barrett / Measure Twice, Murder Once
Christopher Bates / Rise of the Water Margin
Mally Becker / The Counterfeit Wife
Marlene M. Bell / Copper Waters
R.G. Belsky / It’s News to Me
Jonathon Benjamin / American Airman
Scott Allen Benkie / The Lawyer's Angel
Irwin Black / Silver and Blood
Kim Taylor Blakemore / The Deception
Shelley Blanton-Stroud / Tomboy
Rick Bleiweiss / Pignon Scorbion & The Barbershop Detectives
Liz Boeger / AppleJacked
Jacqueline Boulden / Her Past Can't Wait
D. M. Bourgeois / Misguided Revenge
Jodi Bowersox / Blue-Eyed Devil
Michael Bradley / None Without Sin
Andrew J. Brandt / Picture Unavailable
Drew Bratcher / Bub
Valerie J Brooks / 1 Last Betrayal
Bill Browder / Freezing Order
Allison Buccola / Catch Her When She Falls
Elizabeth Bunce / In Myrtle Peril
Debbie Burke / Until Proven Guilty
Thomas A. Burns, Jr. / Sister! A Natalie McMasters Play
SL Calder / A Dusty Demise
Kris Calvin / Under a Broken Sky
Ross Carley / The Three-Legged Assassin
Mindy Carlson / Her Dying Day
Chris Chan / Of Course He Pushed Him & Other Sherlock Holmes Stories
Hope Clark / Badge of Edisto
Jon Cohn / The Island Mother
Tom Collins / Treasure of the Diary
Trace Conger / Catch and Release
Esteban Corio / The Future of Humanity
David Cornish / 2003
Katherine Cowley / The Lady's Guide to Death and Deception
Michelle Cox / A Spying Eye
J. A. Crawford / Heroes Ever Die
Martha Crites / Danger to Others
Georgina Cross / The Niece
Matty Dalrymple / The Serpent’s Tooth
Charles D'Amico / Perdue
Jillian David / Fallen Comrade
Ed Davis / Last Professional
Sharon L Dean / Calderwood Cove
Tina Debellegarde / Dead Man’s Leap
J. L. Delozier / The Photo Thief
A.J. Devlin / Five Moves of Doom
Tracey Devlyn / Flash Point
P.A. De Voe / Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
Sonja Dewing / Evil Nuns from Space
Frank DiBianca / Laser Trap
Marianne Donley / An Element of Mystery
Kathleen Donnelly / Chasing Justice
Marissa Doyle / Countess of Shadows
Darlene Dziomba / Clues from the Canines
TK Eldridge / Rook
Gerald Elias / Roundtree Days
Joanna Elm / Fool Her Once
Stephen Eoannou / Rook
Trish Esden / The Art of the Decoy
Alan Evans / Salma's Revenge
Mike Faricy / Hit & Run
Mike Faricy / Suspect Santa
Sara Farizan / Dead Flip
Matthew Farrell / The Perfect Mother
Katherine Faulkner / Greenwich Park
Erica Ferencik / Girl in Ice
Carter Fielding / Murder in the Tea Leaves
Craig W. Fisher / Baker Street Irregular
Erin Flanagan / Blackout
Lori Duffy Foster / Never Broken
Lori Duffy Foster / Never Let Go
S.M. Freedman / Blood Atonement
Gillian French / Sugaring Off
James Fulmer / The Ark and the Whale
Susan Furlong / What They Don't Know
Shirley B. Garrett, Psy.D / Murder in the Churchyard
Deb Gaskill / Hidden Fitz
Leonard Getz / Innocent Spouse
Jennifer Givhan / River Woman River Demon
James Glass / The Kill Club
James Glass / Minutes to Midnight
Rick Glaze / Spanish Pieces of Eight
Bradeigh Godfrey / Imposter
Jeanne Godfroy / Midgard
Debra H Goldstein / Five Belles Too Many
Judith Gonda / Murder in the Community Garden
Frank Gratton / Nula
S.E. Greco / A Patient Enemy
Angela Greenman / The Child Riddler
Henry Hack / Broken Windows
Leigh M. Hall / Within These Walls
Leslie Hall / Curves Ahead
Patrick Hanford / The Creation of Marla Adams
Vinnie Hansen / One Gun
Elle Hartford / Beauty and the Alchemist
Dennis Havlin / The Grave With Greener Grass
L. C. Hayden / That Last Ghost Dance
Peter Hayes / The Things That Secrets Cannot Hide
Kim Hays / Pesticide
Richard Helms / A Kind and Savage Place
Lori Roberts Herbst / Frozen in Motion
Bailey Herrington / The Girl in the Orange Maillot
Lynn Hesse / The Forty Knots Burn
Lynn Hesse / A Matter of Respect
J L Hill / Killer With Ice Eyes
Sasscer Hill / Murder at the Willcotts Hotel
Sue Hinkin / The Rx for Murder
Eric S. Hoffman / The Ballad of Clay Moore
Thomas Holland / Grind Slowly, Grind Small
Colin Holmes / Thunder Road
Polly Holmes / Black Magic Murder
Bruce Holsinger / The Displacements
Sara Hosey / Imagining Elsewhere
Catherine Ryan Howard / Run Time
Linda Hughes / Sisters of the Lake
Nancy Hughes / Buried Trust
Kelly Irvin / Trust Me
Candace Irving / Chokepoint
Lynn-Steven Johanson / Corrupted Souls
Bryan Johnston / Death Warrant
Timothy S. Johnston / The Shadow of War
Mark Edward Jones / A Gentleman from the Darkness
Joy Jordan-Lake / A Bend of Light
Tom Joyce / The Missing Peace
Jo Kaplan / When the Night Bells Ring
Alma Katsu / The Wehrwolf
Fenton Kay / A Piano in the Night
Syrl Kazlo / A Doggone Death
Sean Keefer / The Code
Mary Keliikoa / Deceived
Mary Keliikoa / Hidden Pieces
Tom Kelso / Stability Island
Bill King / Trouble in Valdez County
J. Robert Kinney / At All Costs
Justin M. Kiska / Vice & Virtue
Christine Knapp / Murder at the Wedding
Ryan Kovacs / The N.M.E.
Kevin Kuhens / Terror's Sword
Lucy Lakestone / Jiggered by Gin
Kathryn Lane / Missing in Miami
Madison Lawson / The Registration
Lynessa Layne / Target Acquired
Jane B Lee / Cynthia the Enforcer
Cristina LePort / Dissection
James L'Etoile / Dead Drop
NN Light / The Dog Days of Murder
Laurie Loewenstein / Funeral Train
Amber A. Logan / The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn
Joan Long / The Finalist
Linda Lou Long / The Tuskegee Strangler
Linda Lovely / Neighbors To Die For
Debbi Mack / Fatal Connections
Lexa Mack / Legacy of Lies
John Madinger / Going Under
J.B. Manning / Richter the Mighty
S. Lee Manning / Bloody Soil
J. Lawrence Matthews / The Case of the Disappearing Beaune
Dianne McCartney / Dark Vengeance
Terrence McCauley / Blood on the Trail
Bonita McCoy / Twisted Vows
Richard F. McGonegal / Ghoul Duty
Tony McKenna / The Face of the Waters
Amanda McKinney / Buried Deception
Jennifer McMahon / The Children on the Hill
Richard Meredith / Maskirovka—The Russian Science of Deception
Mandy Miller / Friday Night in The Glades
Jode Millman / Hooker Avenue
Kiersten Modglin / The Dinner Guests
Kiersten Modglin / A Quiet Retreat
Jacob Moon / Dead Reckoning
K. L. Murphy / Her Sister's Death
Judy L Murray / Killer in the Kitchen
Nola Nash / House of Mirrors
Nola Nash / Traveler
Emilya Naymark / Behind the Lie
Jason Offutt / The Girl in the Corn
Laura Oles / Depths of Deceit
Kelly Oliver / Chaos at Carnegie Hall
Haris Orkin / Goldhammer
Susan Ouellette / The Wayward Assassin
Ann Parker / The Secret in the Wall
Carrie Stuart Parks / Fallout
Robin Peguero / With Prejudice
W.A. Pepper / DoGoodR
W.A. Pepper / You Will Know Vengeance
Palmer Pickering / Heliotrope
Carol Potenza / Spirit Daughters
Lolli Powell / The Ghost Wears A Badge
Richard Powell / What God Abandoned
Dareth Pray / Sweetland
Beth Prentice / Tidal Wave
A.D. Price / After the Blue, Blue Rain
David Putnam / The Sinister
Summer Rain / Bleary Eyes
D.R. Ransdell / Brotherly Love
D.R. Ransdell / Party Wine
E.L. Reed / Spikes
Jordan Reed / The Wizard's Brew
Iain Reid / We Spread
Saralyn Richard / Bad Blood Sisters
Saralyn Richard / Crystal Blue Murder
Amy Rivers / Stumble & Fall
Lori Robbins / Murder in Third Position
Jeneva Rose / One of us is Dead
Johan Rosenlind / Franco's Lost Gold
James Ross / Coldwater Confession
Peggy Rothschild / A Deadly Bone to Pick
Kaira Rouda / Somebody's Home
Mark Rubinstein / Assassin's Lullaby
Frank Runles / Lies People Tell
Steve Rush / Kill Your Characters
Lindy Ryan / Into the Forest
John Ryland / The Unkindness of Ravens
Cindy Sample / Birthdays are Murder
J.R. Sanders / Dead-Bang Fall
Kathryn Scarborough / What Was Hidden
Jule Selbo / 9 Days: A Dee Rommel Mystery
Jeff Shaw / Lieutenant Trufant
Lisa Sherman / Forget Me
Dr. Shira Shiloah / Grave Intervention
Joel Shulkin, MD / Toxic Effects
Lida Sideris / Gambling with Murder
J.T. Siemens / To Those Who Killed Me
Benny Sims / Mile Marker Zero
Elizabeth Sims / Tight Race
Diane Sismour / That Darkened Doorstep Anthology
Lynn Slaughter / Deadly Setup
Nancy Raven Smith / Bushwhacked in the Outback
Jonathan Snowling / Distorted Perception
Monique Snyman / Dark Country
Holly Spofford / The Even Game
Michael Stanley / A Deadly Covenant
Janet Raye Stevens / It's Been A Long, Long Time
J.B. Stevens / A Therapeutic Death
Gabrielle St. George / How to Kill a Kingpin
Michael Stockham / Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer
Pat Stoltey / In Defense of Delia
Colleen M. Story / The Beached Ones
Gregory Stout / The Gone Man
Drew Strickland / Abducted in Appalachia
Charlotte Stuart / Not Me! Speluncaphobia, Secrets and Hidden Treasure
Marie Sutro / Dark Obsessions
Bob Van Laerhoven / The Shadow Of The Mole
Nina Wachsman / The Gallery of Beauties
Joss Walker and R.L. Perez / Master of Shadows
Ruth Ware / The It Girl
S. K. Waters / The Dead Won't Tell
Linda Watkins / Tainted Wine
J. D. Webb / Incredible Witness
R Weir / Sold Souls
Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor / River of Ashes
Christine Mager Wevik / Someone Knows
Alana White / The Hearts of All on Fire
Marla White / Cause for Elimination
Becki Willis / Murder at the Stroke of Midnight
Becki Willis / Superstitions and Apparitions
C.B. Wilson / Doodled to Death
Susan Wingate / Gag Me
Susan Wingate / When You Leave Me
Lois Winston / Guilty as Framed
Victory Witherkeigh / The Girl
Joyce Woollcott / A Nice Place To Die
Allen Wyler / Deadly Odds 5.0
Melissa Yuan-Innes / The Shapes of Wrath
Mary Yungeberg / The Man Behind The Shadows
Anastasia Zadeik / Blurred Fates
Rich Zahradnik / The Bone Records
2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Readers’ Choice Award
Every year Killer Nashville receives hundreds of submissions for our Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award competition for best books of the previous year. It takes several rounds of judging by industry professionals to determine the winner(s). However, the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Readers’ Choice Award is different. This is your chance to vote for YOUR Top 10 favorites! You may vote for up to 10 titles, but you can only vote once. Spread the word and encourage other fans to vote! Voting is open until midnight Monday, July 31, 2023.